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The toll of the slave trade has been put at twenty million Africans. Many relate this to growing tobacco and cotton. However, two thirds of it must be charged to sugar. Sugar’s past is not sweet. What about its present? That is also a center of controversy. Many rail against it, many more are devoted to it, and very few are exempt from it

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